Recent Blog Postings

Recent Blog Postings

Alexandria Brown ’14 and Anais Marston ’14 shared more than friendship when they were students at Harlem Academy – they also shared a love of science. As they prepare to begin their freshman year in college this fall – Alexandria at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute (RPI) and Anais at Northeastern – the two continue to follow a similar path. Both plan to become engineers.
Alexandria and Anais credit Harlem Academy with spurring their interest in the field.
“I love doing challenging science...

Malik was the only student from NYC to place in the DuPont Science Challenge.
Recent graduate Malik Figaro '16 was recognized with honorable mention in the DuPont Challenge Science Essay Competition for his research paper he wrote while attending Harlem Academy.
The competition is one of the foremost science contests for K-12 students, receiving more than 9,000 submissions. Students are asked to write a 700- to 1,000-word essay in one of four categories: food, energy, protection, and...

Students work on building an automated watering system
for plants out of discarded computer parts.
The Harlem Academy middle school recently traveled to Troy, N.Y., to spend three days on campus at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute. The annual visit, called Collaboration for Innovation, is intended to inspire students in the STEM disciplines.
Students have the opportunity to work with professors, visit the Hirsch Observatory, stay overnight in college dorms, and hear current Rensselaer...

Yesterday, the grade-eight class visited the Rafael Viñoly Architects studio to present projects to a panel of architects.
During the past five weeks of science class, students have been working on creating architecture projects with professional architects. Each student was tasked with designing a 400 square foot building for an existing open lot at 110th Street and Fifth Avenue that could serve the community. First, students developed a concept design, then they created perspective...

Harlem Academy fourth graders perform an experiment about surface tension on a penny for Dr. Jackson.
Time magazine dubbed Dr. Shirley Ann Jackson as, “perhaps the ultimate role model for women in science.” She is the president of Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, former chairman of the U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission, and the first African-American woman to earn a doctorate from MIT.
For Harlem Academy, Dr. Jackson has been a long-time supporter and a partner in the growth of our science...